Disney Could Lose No-Fly Zone

Disney Could Lose No-Fly Zone

Freedomist Curator May 3, 2022

Congressman Seeks To Revoke Disney’s “No-Fly” Zone

From insidethemagic.net
2022-05-03 00:57:05

Excerpt:

Following the Walt Disney Company’s public condemnation of the “Don’t Say Gay” bill — officially titled the Parental Rights in Education Act — Republicans from Florida and across the nation have retaliated against the Walt Disney Company and Disney theme parks. Most notably, the Florida legislature recently passed a bill to dissolve the Reedy Creek Improvement District — the special district established around Walt Disney World that allows them to fund and operate their own municipal services like fire prevention, water, roads, etc.

Now, Congressman Troy Nehls (R) of Texas’ 22nd Congressional District has begun advocating for the removal of “No-Fly Zones” over Walt Disney World and Disneyland — the only two theme parks in the country with such restrictions.

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Russia Turns to Prisoners for Corporate IT Rescue

Ivo Fysic May 3, 2022

Russia to Rent Tech-Savvy Prisoners to Corporate IT? – Krebs on Security

From krebsonsecurity.com
2022-05-03 00:38:10

Excerpt:

Faced with a brain drain of smart people fleeing the country following its invasion of Ukraine, the Russian Federation is floating a new strategy to address a worsening shortage of qualified information technology experts: Forcing tech-savvy people within the nation’s prison population to perform low-cost IT work for domestic companies.

Multiple Russian news outlets published stories on April 27 saying the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service had announced a plan to recruit IT specialists from Russian prisons to work remotely for domestic commercial companies.

Russians sentenced to forced labor will serve out their time at one of many correctional centers across dozens of Russian regions, usually at the center that is closest to their hometown. Alexander Khabarov, deputy head of Russia’s penitentiary service, said his agency had received proposals from businessmen in different regions to involve IT specialists serving sentences in correctional centers to work remotely for commercial companies.

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Covid Carries on Longer for 30 Percent of Patients

Parker Davis May 3, 2022

Almost 30 Percent of COVID-19 Patients Develop ‘Long COVID’

From www.physiciansweekly.com
2022-05-03 05:51:35

Excerpt:

MONDAY, May 2, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Almost 30 percent of hospitalized patients and high-risk outpatients with COVID-19 develop postacute sequelae of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (PASC), according to a study published online April 7 in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

Sun M. Yoo, M.D., M.P.H., from the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California in Los Angeles, and colleagues examined the association of demographic and clinical characteristics on development of PASC among hospitalized and high-risk outpatients from April 2020 to February 2021.

The researchers found that 29.8 percent of the 1,038 patients with longitudinal follow-up developed PASC. In hospitalized patients, the most common persistent symptom was fatigue, followed by shortness of breath (31.4 and 15.4 percent, respectively); in outpatients, anosmia was the most common persistent symptom….

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Uyghurs Muzzled by CCP Before UN Human Rights Chief Visit

Parker Davis May 3, 2022

Uyghurs warned against divulging ‘state secrets’ before UN right chief ‘s China visit — Radio Free Asia

From www.rfa.org
2022-05-02 21:46:00

Excerpt:

Chinese officials in Xinjiang are warning Uyghurs not to divulge “state secrets” during a visit by United Nations human rights chief Michelle Bachelet this month, officials in the western region said.

A Chinese government video instructing Uyghurs on 10 things not to do has been shared widely on Douyin, a Chinese version of the TikTok short video app, in Xinjiang, the sources said.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Committee of Yarkand (in Chinese, Shache) county in Kashgar (Kashi) prefecture recently uploaded the video to social media. It features 10 female CCP officials from the county reciting the “10 commandments” and warning Uyghur residents not to disclose so-called state secrets.

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Sanders Targets Bezos for Senate Hearing Questions About Ant-Unionism

Freedomist Curator May 3, 2022

Bernie Sanders Invites Jeff Bezos To Testify At Hearing About Amazon’s Anti-Union Activities

From www.politicususa.com
2022-05-02 20:53:17
Jason Easley
Excerpt:

Senate Budget Committee Chairman Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) invited Jeff Bezos to testify at a hearing about Amazon’s anti-union activities.

The office of Chairman Sanders said in a press release about the hearing:

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, announced Monday that the committee will hold a hearing Thursday, May 5, at 11:00 a.m. titled “Should Taxpayer Dollars Go to Companies that Violate Labor Laws?”

Thursday’s hearing comes at a time when the federal government spends more than $600 billion each year on contracts to thousands of companies who employ more than four million contract workers. However, nearly 30 percent of the top 200 violators of workplace safety and wage theft are government contractors. Between 2014 and 2019, federal contractors were required to pay nearly $225 million in back wages to workers for Service Contract Act violations.

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Lori Lightfoot Needs Re-Election to Create Her Own Board of Ed

Ivo Fysic May 2, 2022

‘Daunting task’: Mayor Lightfoot leaves Board of Education seat empty after fighting elected board

From abc7chicago.com

…..after lobbying unsuccessfully against a bill last year that will create an elected school board for Chicago two years from now, the mayor hasn’t taken advantage of her opportunity to have a say in who will serve on the Board of Education.

When Lightfoot fought the elected school board, she argued it was imperative for her to appoint the entire board since the mayor is largely seen as responsible for the success – or failure – of the schools system.

Lightfoot has less than a year remaining in her term ahead of the spring 2023 mayoral election, followed by the first school board elections in late 2024 and the new board taking control in early 2025. If Lightfoot wins reelection she would be able to appoint 11 members of the new 21-seat board to serve the first two years of her term. When the board becomes fully elected two years later, the mayor won’t have any say in its makeup.

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Dems Lose Big in NY Court Redistricting Map Ruling

Ivo Fysic May 2, 2022

New York Just Cost Democrats Their Big Redistricting Advantage

From fivethirtyeight.com
2022-04-27 21:40:45
Nathaniel Rakich
Excerpt:

Don’t count your chickens before they hatch — and don’t count your congressional districts before all the redistricting lawsuits are finished.

On Wednesday, the New York Court of Appeals ruled that the congressional map New York Democrats enacted back in February was a partisan gerrymander that violated the state constitution and tossed it to the curb. The decision was a huge blow to Democrats, who until recently looked like they had gained enough seats nationally in redistricting to almost eliminate the Republican bias in the House of Representatives. But with the invalidation of New York’s map, as well as Florida’s recent passage of a congressional map that heavily favors the GOP, the takeaways from the 2021-22 redistricting cycle are no longer so straightforward.

That’s because much of Democrats’ national redistricting advantage rested on their gerrymander in New York. The now-invalidated map included 20 seats with a FiveThirtyEight partisan lean ² of D+5 or bluer and only four seats with a partisan lean of R+5 or redder. It also included two swing seats, but even those had slight Democratic leans (D+3 and D+4)……

Back in March, Democrats didn’t have as large of an advantage by this metric, but they were still doing better than Republicans: I estimated at the time that redistricting would net Democrats around two seats in the midterms, while it would lead to a net loss of around three or four seats for Republicans (this was without considering the Republican-leaning national political environment). Now, however, Republicans clearly have the advantage on this score. I estimate that redistricting currently positions Republicans for a net gain of around four or five House seats and Democrats for a net loss of about four, based on the maps as they stand now…….

In its decision, the New York Court of Appeals endorsed the idea that a neutral special master — essentially, an expert in drawing political maps — should draw New York’s next congressional map. That would presumably lead to a relatively fair map, but the details and exact partisan breakdown are, of course, still a mystery; Democrats could still gain seats from New York’s map when all is said and done (just not as many as from their gerrymander).

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Top Researcher Who Questioned AI Supremacy Fired by Google

As Solomons Join China, US Looks for Pacific Friends

Ivo Fysic May 2, 2022

US to ramp up engagement with Pacific amid tensions over China-Solomons deal

From www.presstv.ir
2022-05-02 09:42:00

Excerpt:

In a bid to ramp up diplomatic engagement with Pacific Island countries, Washington is set to host leaders from the region later this year, a senior US government official has said.

Kurt Campbell, who serves as coordinator for Indo-Pacific affairs on the US National Security Council, made the announcement at a US-New Zealand business summit on Monday, amid rising tensions with China.

Campbell told attendees at the summit that besides hosting island leaders, the Biden administration also intended to step up diplomatic ties with Pacific countries that had not seen ambassadors or engagement for decades.

“For the United States to be effective in the Pacific we must do more, and we must do more on areas that matter and are of significance to the Pacific Islanders,” he said.

Campbell said the Biden administration would also engage with US AID and the new US International Development Finance Corporation to fund projects in the region.

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French Election sees Wokeness Become Central Issue in Campaign

Parker Davis April 13, 2022

‘Woke culture’ has made its way into the French presidential election – WUNC

From www.wunc.org
2022-04-12 09:14:00

Excerpt:

French President Emmanuel Macron is set to face far-right leader Marine Le Pen in a runoff later this month. That’s the result of a vote over the weekend. The presidential campaign has been dominated in part by a battle against woke culture that’s seen as an import from the United States. Candidates of all stripes have shared a rare consensus in denouncing le wokism. And I asked French journalist, commentator and filmmaker Rokhaya Diallo what that says about race, identity and extremism in France.

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